Live Review Pulled Apart by Horses Album Launch
The Leeds riff-masters give their debut album a good send off at the Brudenell Social Club
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The album launch party from everyone’s favourite gruesomely-named Leeds quartet was a hefty affair. A 6pm start with six bands, bingo and a quiz was ambitious in anyone’s books, but in the end it all worked out swimmingly. Kicking off were Blacklisters with a blistering set of forceful, not-quite-atonal hardcore, letting their front man’s Palumbo-inspired vocals take centre stage.
The boys from Talons gave us an immense post-rock instrumental set of power and raw energy. Fingers flew over fret boards and the breakdowns, while a little shambolic in some of the newer numbers; let the combined violin force career through. Singles, such as ‘The Pearl,’ went down a treat.
Things got even more Leeds-core as Holy State stormed the stage. Local fellows and Dance to the Radio darlings, they could do no wrong and the set was strong enough to prove it. Plenty of attitude carried a tight set along that the crowd, by this time starting to pack the room, gleefully responded to.
These Monsters were a completely different beast. From fast, syncopated beats to doom-laden bass lines, this was aggressive, dramatic hardcore rock’n’roll that demanded attention and made the hordes go mental. Saxophonist Jonny Farrell began with eerily ethereal lines, but then halted that by screaming into the bell and rocketing the intensity further skywards.
After some party game meets fanboy-friendly quizzing courtesy of Barrie Wilson from Milk White White Teeth, Pulled Apart by Horses finally took to the stage. And it was worth the wait. It was fast, it was sweaty, the vast majority of the mosh pit had had a go at crowd surfing by the end, and it was declared one of the best shows of the tour, if not ever. Guitarist and birthday boy James Brown had a good mosh himself after receiving cake on stage and deciding this was the time to neglect band duties, while Lee Vincent drummed the set into tight, solid, behemothic submission. Even the newer, poppier songs were extremely well received, but pit intensity was reserved for the stalwarts of ‘Meat Balloon’ and ‘I Punched a Lion in the Throat’. It was a great show-off of what the eponymous debut album promises, and a fantastic, scorching set to round off the evening. Hats off, sirs.
Pulled Apart By Horses’ album launch was at the Brudenell Social Club on 19th June. Their debut album is out now.
Posted on Thursday 1st July 2010
Marianne Rizkallah
Brudenell Social Club
33 Queens Road, Burley, Leeds, LS6 1NY
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